0 present participle of ponder
1 to think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time:
Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons.
So much for keeping an open mind when reading the sources, developing research questions and pondering hypotheses.
But it stops short of confronting us with a paradox worth pondering.
After pondering them a bit, we might even conclude that they contradict one another in practice.
This should alert us to two things when pondering the measurement of resilience in socioeconomic systems.
Further intuition about how the rules for application and abstraction interact can be obtained by pondering on the following example.
In pondering the nature of this reciprocal relationship, it is important to consider three facts.
Therefore, studies based on real patient data are probably of much more value for the decision maker pondering allocation of resources.